CENTENNIAL NEWS

Christmas Eve Services: Tuesday, December 24th
St. Anthony Park Campus: 3pm
Roseville Campus: 5pm

2024 Centennial Christmas Offering: Each Christmas, Centennial seeks to meet community needs through a special offering. This year, we are focusing on two projects:

- The American Sign Language interpretation at Centennial worship services:  A Centennial Foundation grant let us offer American Sign Language interpretation at one worship service per month at the Roseville campus in 2024. The positive response to this inclusive action fostered a vision by the Open Doors and Care teams of offering weekly ASL Interpretation for worship at both campuses. Your Christmas offering will support hiring ASL interpreters and communicating the availability of this service with the wider deaf/hard of hearing community, which includes approximately one in give Minnesotans.

- The Minnesota Freedom Fund: This Minneapolis-based nonprofit, posts bail for people who would not otherwise be able to afford it. Since its founding in 2016, Minnesota Freedom fund has paid more than $26 million to free 3,000+ people from pre-trail jailing and immigration detention. The work of the Minnesota Freedom Fund envisions a world where justice restores the humanity and dignity of all involved.

Please label your contribution to as “Christmas Offering” “ASL” or “MFF”. If only labeled “Christmas Offering” your contribution will be split equally between the two projects. Completely undesignated contributions will go towards CUMC’s operating funds.

Coffee Hour Volunteers: Volunteers are needed for the Sunday Coffee Hour at the Roseville Campus. [CLICK HERE] for easy online sign-up . If the link is not for you, please sign up on the paper form at the Roseville sign-up center or email Dodie |  dodiewoodis@gmail.com with the Sunday(s) you are available.

Office Volunteer Sign-up: Can you help us cover the Roseville front office desk? Volunteers will be answering phones and helping with light office work as needed (details and instructions provided). [CLICK HERE] to sign up!

Want to get involved? Contact: Randy Oelschlager rjjdo123@comcast.net

The Laity Collaborative: This is a new learning community focused on equipping laity and unleashing the power of the holy spirit throughout the Minnesota Conference. Register for this virtual series which begins on January 16th and lasts through June. [REGISTER HERE]

Just Like Me VBS 2025: Join us from 5-8pm on Wednesday evenings, July 9 to August 6 for “Just Like Me: Digging in and growing deep”, Centennial UMC’s summer Vacation Bible. Over the course of these 5 Wednesdays, kids will be introduced to a cast of neighborhood Gardeners who will help them explore Biblical stories of people who were able to change things for the better. Kids will practice sharing what they have, finding their community, and using their voice for others. [REGISTER HERE]

Bible Study - Roseville Campus: Wednesdays, 6pm, Asbury 1. *no meeting November 27th. This fall we will be starting in the book of Romans. Contact Mark Meyer for more information: mark.meyer@netzero.com

Bible Study at St. Anthony Park: Sundays 9:30am before worship, in the fellowship hall downstairs. | St. Anthony Park campus |  Questions contact Alan O'Donnell, arodonnell@hotmail.com.

Sacred Sites Tours: Tours are led by Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs (Mohican) and Kelly Sherman Conroy (Oglala Lakota). The tours offer an opportunity to learn about Minnesota history from a Native perspective through story-telling and experiencing the sites in silence / meditation / reflection.  www.mnchurches.org/what-we-do/healing-minnesota-stories

Re-Imagining Church and Discipleship: Wednesdays, 5:30-7pm, Roseville Campus Fellowship Hall. In this ministry series we will dream together and examine our expectations of church for self and the whole, creating new frameworks for discipleship and involvement in the life of the church. [REGISTER HERE]

Want to get involved? Contact: Monique Lindquist moniquelindquist@gmail.com

Worship at Roseville Campus is at 9:00am  |  Worship at St. Anthony Park is at 10:30am
Preaching this week: Pastor Whitney Sheridan

New Sermon Series: Revelation January 12th-February 2nd. Throughout the series, we learn that emotions—whether joy, anger, anxiety, or sadness—are part of the human experience, and Jesus experienced them in profound ways. His emotional life offers us comfort, understanding, and healing. By following His example, we can navigate our own feelings with honesty, integrity, and faith, knowing that Jesus walks with us through every emotion.  

Worship on December 29th: This worship service will be a recorded combined service that will be available on our YouTube channel at 9am on Sunday December 29th.

Download the Centennial App!: A new way to connect with groups, find events, watch past worship services, and give all in once place. Look up Centennial UMC in the apple or android app store! [CLICK HERE]